ISRAEL COST = Costs SINCE 2003 HAVE INCREASED = “Despite a tough…expected US budget cuts—US lawmakers will provide $236 million in fiscal 2012 for Israeli development of three missile defense programs.”

ISRAEL COST = “$205 million to support the Iron Dome, manufactured by Israel’s state-owned Raphael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. The system uses small radar-guided missiles to blow up in midair Katyusha-style rockets with ranges of 3 miles to 45 miles.”

ISRAEL COST = GOP Legislation would give Israel $680 Million MORE for Iron Dome system through 2015.

ISRAEL COST = FAKED IRAQ WAR ROBBED RESOURCES FROM Afghanistan war = CAUSED that war to be MUCH LONGER AND MORE COSTLY.

ISRAEL COST = Israel lobby is NOW FAKING WMDs in IRAN = Gunning for a war with Iran with the same zeal they showed in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

ISRAEL COST = All cost estimates for a FAKED AIPAC-NEOCON WAR WITH IRAN = Much higher than Iraq war + LARGER loss of life + Loss of Iran’s oil production = Gas prices would rise up 70% or EVEN MORE if the Straits of Hormuz that carries 20% of world’s oil production were BLOCKED = Cost of oil would skyrocket to a level never seen before = WORLD DEPRESSION

Israel population = 7.8 million = One million fewer than New Jersey

ISRAEL = Among world’s most affluent nations = Per capita income like EU

ISRAEL = Net trade, earnings, and payments is ranks 30th in world while the US sits in last place at a dismal 193rd.

ISRAEL = Receives more America’s foreign aid than any other nation.

ISRAEL = Gets More Aid than all of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean combined = Total population of over a billion people.

ASSUPMTION = “two countries…shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives, but neither explanation can account for the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support US provides.” = NO TWO COUNTRIES SHARE SAME INTERESTS.

FACT = Thrust of US policy derives almost entirely from PRESSURES of the ‘Israel Lobby’ AIPAC = “no (other) lobby has managed to divert so dar from (USA) national interest…while simultaneously convincing Americans that US interests and …Israel—are essentially identical.”

AIPAC = Consistently ranked in top two most powerful lobbies in America.

AIPAC = Only one arm of the much larger, multi-faceted, and well-financed and well organized Israel lobby = Wealthy Members give generously

AIPAC = If you cross AIPAC, AIPAC is unforgiving and will destroy you politically = MEDIA DESTRUCTION + MONEY DESTRUCTION

AIPAC = Joseph Lieberman proudly stated, “Any attempt to pressure Israel, to force Israel to the negotiating table by denying Israel support, will not pass in Congress… Congress will act against any attempt to do that.”

AIPAC = OWNS AND CONTROLS US Congress + Executive Branch = GUARANTEES support for virtually any wish of the Israeli government = NO matter how at odds with US national interest or security it is.

AIPAC = Two AIPAC employees = Indicted on espionage charges in 2005 = Obtained classified US SECRETS illegally and passed it to Israeli agents = Steven Rosen filed a lawsuit for defamation = His actions were common practice at AIPAC.

ISRAEL FUNDING = US Congress in violation of the Arms Export Control Act

AUTHOR = If Americans Knew analysts + Pamela Olson, a President’s Scholar at Stanford University 1998-2002 in Physics and lived and worked in the West Bank and author of Fast Times in Palestine = Update of 1998 work by Richard Curtiss, “The Cost of Israel to U.S. Taxpayers.”